Tag Archives: physics
links for 2008-01-23: Pioneer anomaly, Sterling’s Kiosk
Universe Today » A Possible Answer to Flyby Anomalies See previously (tags: astronomy physics space Pioneer Unruh-effect) Bruce Sterling – Kiosk What happens when 3D fabricators are capable of fabricating fabricators? (tags: Bruce_Sterling scifi fabrication technology)
links for 2007-11-29: Schrodinger’s LOLcat
Schrodinger’s LOLcat Geekiest lolcat of teh year? (tags: Schrodinger lolcats quantum uncertainty multiverse)
links for 2006-12-14: treadmill fun, Polanski, James Clerk Maxwell, soda attack
YouTube – ok go fun with treadmills. Not that keen on the song, but the video is, as the current parlance is, teh awesome. (tags: music video youtube) YouTube – Polanski on Chinatown (tags: movies Roman_Polanski Chinatown) James Clerk Maxwell: … more…
links for 2006-12-05: Grammar of Ornament, Quaternions, Bearden, Bayes, Pollock, Tesla
Owen Jones and the Grammar of Ornament The images are from the 1868 edition of the Grammar of Ornament, by Owen Jones (tags: design ornament library) Quaternion – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia first major speed bump encountered in Against the … more…
Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?
Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? We all laughed when Alan Sokal wrote a deliberately silly paper entitled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”, and managed to get it accepted by a refereed journal of … more…
Earth’s little brother found
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Earth’s little brother found Astronomers report the existence of a 100m wide object which follows the earth’s orbit around the sun – although for the life of me I can’t work out how the physics … more…
In the beginning was the bit
New Scientist: In the beginning was the bit – more answers to everything. You shouldn’t have.
M-theory, the theory formerly known as Strings
“If we are searching for the theory of everything, to have five of them is an embarrassment of riches! Fortunately, M-theory came to save us.” M-theory, the theory formerly known as Strings is witty and readable on the subject of … more…
An alternative to the Big Bang
New Theory Proposed by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok Provides Alternative to Big Bang: Department of Physics, Princeton University – new cosmologies always welcome! (via Rebecca’s Pocket and csmonitor)